Managing NFS and NIS / Hal Stern, Mike Eisler, and Ricardo Labiaga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Hal.

Contributor:

Eisler, Mike.

Labiaga, Ricardo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

UNIX (Computer file).

Computer networks.

Network File System (Computer network protocol).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

NFS and NIS

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly & Associates, 2001.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A modern computer system that's not part of a network is even more of an anomaly today than it was when we published the first edition of this book in 1991. But however widespread networks have become, managing a network and getting it to perform well can still be a problem.Managing NFS and NIS, in a new edition based on Solaris 8, is a guide to two tools that are absolutely essential to distributed computing environments: the Network Filesystem (NFS) and the Network Information System (formerly called the ""yellow pages"" or YP). The Network Filesystem, developed by Sun M

Contents:

Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition; Versions; Organization; Conventions used in this book; Differences between the first edition and second edition; Comments and questions; Hal&s acknowledgments from the first edition; Acknowledgments for the second edition; Mike Eisler&s acknowledgments; Ricardo Labiaga&s acknowledgments; 1. Networking Fundamentals; 1.2. Physical and data link layers; 1.2.2. Ethernet addresses; 1.3. Network layer; 1.3.2. IP host addresses; 1.3.3. IPv4 address classes; 1.3.4. Classless IP addressing; 1.3.5. Virtual interfaces; 1.3.6. IP Version 6

1.3.6.2. IP Version 6 loopback address1.3.6.3. IP Version 6 unspecified address; 1.4. Transport layer; 1.4.2. Port numbers; 1.5. The session and presentation layers; 1.5.2. External data representation; 1.5.3. Internet and RPC server configuration; 2. Introduction to Directory Services; 2.2. Brief survey of common directory services; 2.2.2. Network Information Service (NIS); 2.2.3. NIS+; 2.2.4. X.500; 2.2.5. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP); 2.2.6. NT Domain; 2.3. Name service switch; 2.4. Which directory service to use; 3. Network Information Service Operation

3.2. Basics of NIS management3.2.2. Installing the NIS master server; 3.2.3. Installing NIS slave servers; 3.2.4. Enabling NIS on client hosts; 3.3. Files managed under NIS; 3.3.2. Netgroups; 3.3.3. Hostname formats in netgroups; 3.3.4. Integrating NIS maps with local files; 3.3.5. Map files; 3.3.6. Map naming; 3.3.7. Map structure; 3.3.8. NIS domains; 3.3.9. The ypserv daemon; 3.3.10. The ypbind daemon; 3.3.11. NIS server as an NIS client; 3.4. Trace of a key match; 4. System Management Using NIS; 4.1.2. Domain names; 4.1.3. Number of NIS servers per domain; 4.2. Managing map files

4.2.2. Regular map transfers4.2.3. Map file dependencies; 4.2.4. Password file updates; 4.2.5. Source code control for map files; 4.2.6. Using alternate map source files; 4.3. Advanced NIS server administration; 4.3.2. Changing NIS master servers; 4.4. Managing multiple domains; 5. Living with Multiple Directory Servers; 5.1.2. DNS integration with NIS; 5.1.3. NIS and DNS domain names; 5.1.4. Domain aliases; 5.2. Implementation; 5.2.2. Run NIS on client, enable DNS on NIS server; 5.2.3. Run DNS on NIS clients and servers; 5.2.4. Run NIS on client, enable DNS on NIS client

5.3. Fully qualified and unqualified hostnames5.4. Centralized versus distributed management; 5.5. Migrating from NIS to DNS for host naming; 5.6. What next?; 6. System Administration Using the Network File System; 6.2. Exporting filesystems; 6.2.2. Exporting options; 6.3. Mounting filesystems; 6.3.2. Using mount; 6.3.3. Mount options; 6.3.4. Backgrounding mounts; 6.3.5. Hard and soft mounts; 6.3.6. Resolving mount problems; 6.4. Symbolic links; 6.4.2. Absolute and relative pathnames; 6.4.3. Mount points, exports, and links; 6.5. Replication; 6.5.2. Rules for mounting replicas

6.5.3. Managing replicas

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781306817318

1306817315

9780596515645

0596515642

9780596551940

0596551940

OCLC:

609840778